Flexibility of Voice

The writing implement of a crayon did affect the writer. Half-way through his argument, he changed from an orange crayon to a black pen. I believe that he may have felt inhibited intellectually by the crayon. In fact, his over-all argument was rather short. With crayon, he wrote bigger than he did in pen. I'm not talking about the thickness of the lines, which would be expected to be larger in crayon, but the size of each letter. When he switched to pen, not only did his font get smaller, but he also began incorporating script with print writing. When the writer used the crayon, he wrote completely in print.

The writer's creativity was ultimately not stifled, as shown by his picture on the reverse side of his paper (see previous blog post). The argument itself was good, and the writer proved his point and supported it with clear examples.